Links

RESOURCE CENTRAL

Other Dementias, Other Resources

→“Dementia With Lewy Bodies,” by Bradley Boeve, M.D., available free for download from the Lewy Body Dementia Association, Inc. (lbda.org)

→Living With Lewy's: Empowering Today's Dementia Caregiver, written by and for caregivers, and edited by Amy J. Throop and Gerald S. Throop.

→Neurologynow.com : Go to our Web site and search for “dementia.”

→The 36-Hour Day: A Family Guide to Caring for People with Alzheimer's Disease, Other Dementias, and Memory Loss in Later Life (4th edition), by Nancy L. Mace, MA, and Peter V. Rabins, M.D., M.P.H.

→TheBrainMatters.org : The patient portion of the American Academy of Neurology Web site; search for “dementia.”

→What if It's Not Alzheimer's? A Caregiver's Guide to Dementia, edited by Lisa Radin and Gary Radin. Contains information about frontotemporal dementia.

Related Clinical Trials

Although a cure for dementia remains a distant hope, research into Alzheimer's disease has produced medications that treat symptoms, and clinical trials are underway to see if those medications affect other dementias as well.

LEWY BODY DEMENTIA (LBD)

→Two studies are investigating donepezil as a treatment for memory problems in people with LBD.

→One study is investigating the effectiveness of another Alzheimer's drug, memantine, for the treatment of dementia associated with both Parkinson's disease and LBD.

→One study is investigating the effectiveness of ramelteon, a sleep aid, on quelling the agitation of rapid eye movement (REM) behavior disorder, or RBD, a sleep disorder common among people with Parkinson's disease and LBD.

→For more information on these trials, go to clinicaltrials.gov and search for “Lewy body disease.”

→Two studies are investigating the effectiveness of memantine for the treatment of FTD.

→One study is investigating tolcapone, a drug given to people with Parkinson's disease to increase the amount of dopamine in their brain, to see if it helps people with FTD.

→For more information on these trials, go to clinicaltrials.gov and search for “frontotemporal dementia.”

→One study is investigating whether donezepil, a drug that alleviates memory problems in people with Alzheimer's patients, may also help people with vascular dementia to perform tasks of daily living.

→For more information on these trials, go to clinicaltrials.gov and search for “vascular dementia.”